What color wavelengths do plants absorb?
2.Go to this website: www.neok12.com/Photosynthesis.htm. Click on Photosynthesis basics. Match the vocabulary cards to the correct definition.
Note: There is no answer that you need to write down on your sheet at this website.
3. Go to this website: www.realtrees4kids.org/sixeight/letseat.htm Scroll down to the heading "Process". Read the website.
What does this website compare the process of photosynthesis to?
a. Stay on the same website as above.
What atoms make up the molecule Carbon Dioxide?
4. Now go here: www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson/lesson024.shtml
What are trees that drop their leaves in the fall called?
a. Stay on the same website as above. I thought that leaves only had brillant color in the fall. How can a trees leaves be orange and yellow in the summer?
5. Go to this website: www.scholastic.com/magicschoolbus/games/frizfreshfacts/
Click on Friz TV and Launch FrizTV. Click Factivitiy.
What animal is shown depicting parts of photosynthesis?
a.Now stay on the website and Click "The Facts" on the left side.
What are plants veins called?
6. Go to this website: http://lifesciences.envmed.rochester.edu/movies/photosynthesis.swf
What two cellular organelles are shown in the animation but don't play a role in photosynthesis (hint: they are blue and orange)?
7. Go to this website: www.phschool.com/science/biology_place/labbench/lab4/concepts1.html
Click on the arrow to the right.
What does paper chromatography do?
a. Stay on the same website. Click "4-11 Photosynthesis " on the left hand side.
What membrane in the plant captures the chemical compounds ATP (energy)?
8. Click on the following website and watch the flashing picture for a minute.
www.schools.utah.gov/curr/science/sciber00/8th/energy/sciber/photosyn.htm
Describe the food chain that is shown.
9. Go to the following website:
www.reachoutmichigan.org/funexperiments/agesubject/lessons/newton/phytosy.html
How many acres of tropical forest are cut down each year?
a. Stay on the same website.
What is deforestation blamed for?
10. Go to this website:
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/methuselah/photosynthesis.html.
Click on the box to the upper right that says "Illuminating Photosynthesis". Then click on "Cycle", "Atomic Shuffle", and "Three Puzzles" at the top. On "The Cycle" website you have a girl watering a plant. Click the shade.
What molecule comes from outside the window?
11. Go to this website. Hit Play for both animations.
www.earthguide.ucsd.edu/earthguide/diagrams/photosynthesis/photosynthesis.html
What makes these two animations different from one another?
12. Go to this website. Hit the yellow arrow to the left.
www.johnkyrk.com/photosynthesis.html
As the Sun bathes the Earth, how long do solar photons take to get here? (read the text!)
13. Go to
http://library.thinkquest.org/3715/Environ.html
The destruction of different plants can lead to what?
14. Go to this website. Take the online quiz.
www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/quizshowall.php?title=Photosynthesis-1
Record your score on the sheet
15. Play the Food Chain Game at this website. Hit "GAME" at the top to take you right there. Go to this website: www.sheppardsoftware.com/content/animals/kidscorner/foodchain/photosynthesis.htm
15.In the Marine Chain game, what does the small fish eat?
16. Click on the following website:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesize/science/organisms_behaviour_health/food_chains/revise3.shtml
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